[balloo93]

On the 8.8 have you considered the Super88 kit? The Superior axles may come with the 5 on 5.5" pattern. Of course, you may need to do disc though.

[jbrentd]

Subscribing to this one.

I've got a B5 Audi also. Still on the hunt for an XJ though.

[DutchVDub]

yeah, i have an urs4 and the wife has a b5 s4. i love them both but the xj is where its at.

[DutchVDub]

I was worried about trying to figure out all the details of setting up my front axle's mounting system, then TNT sent me this.





I also got my uniframe stiffners and both lockers.









Yesterday was kind of a slow day, I got home late from work and didn't have much motivation. I painted the rest of the passenger side and pulled my t-case apart. Then the kid got fussy and w/ both him and the wife sick I had to go play doctor.

[96cherokeeclass]

VERY VERY NICE. doing it right, good to see.

good luck

[eliassami5]

WHATTTT!!! where did you find this little piece of gold! lol
I love simple green but never knew they made an automotive degreaser, will definitely pick some of this up.

Oh and nice build you got goin here

[justanotherjpr]

Excellent work thus far.

[Gravesdiggerxj]

Originally Posted by DutchVDub

I was worried about trying to figure out all the details of setting up my front axle's mounting system, then TNT sent me this.

cheater....


just kidding


looks good keep it up.


oh I can tell you're a zuki man... because the way you welded that rear axle.... that's a dang fozzy locker lol

[DutchVDub]

Well I haven't gotten much accomplished this last week. Between military duty over the weekend and a good friend's brother killing himself after returning from Iraq my week has been filled with late nights. Furthermore I'm trying to buy a house. I'm actually starting to get pretty depressed and am no longer counting on making November to Remember.



Even worse (in terms of the build), just now when I started to put my t-case back together I ran into a problem. The gears that need to be transferred over from the stock shaft to the new SYE shaft don't fit onto the SYE shaft. Not entirely sure why except the obvious thing is that the diameter of the SYE is greater than the diameter of the stock shaft. The size difference looks to be the exact thickness of the bearing that are pressed into the said gears. Its an Advance Adapters SYE kit, I'm going to give Rusty's a call and see whats up.



I did finish painting the majority of the Jeep last night though. All thats left is the two doors I'd removed, the hood, and the roof. The roof will have to wait until I can get the Jeep out of the garage.



My buddy Josh will be up tomorrow and we're going to weld the stuff onto the axles and weld up my uni-body stiffeners. Then if we have time I'm going to make him help me throw the new gears/lockers in the axles.

[balloo93]

On your 92 you should have to remove the caged bearing on the shaft. Did you remove that bearing?

[jeep12827]

hey what size are those old tires you showed in the pic above?? and if they r decent u looking to get rid of them?

[99XJburton]

audis and jeeps dude, thats whats up! dads got a b7, slammed, chipped, bbs rgr's. im hopefully picking up an 01 here within the next few weeks.

that greens gonna look good.

[DutchVDub]

Originally Posted by jeep12827

hey what size are those old tires you showed in the pic above?? and if they r decent u looking to get rid of them?

They're 32x11.5's (if you mean the ones I was running before tearing down the Jeep) and they are already sold.

[DutchVDub]

Well so far today I did manage to get a little done. Right now I'm waiting on the wife to get back from work so i can head up to Lowes and get a few things. We would have made more progress but Josh's Hobart 220V welder was giving us some major headaches. I've never been overly impressed with Hobarts in the past and now I'm definately going to get a Lincoln when I finally buy a welder of my own. Josh did leave me his 110V Lincoln and that'll be enough for me to finish up the welding, I'll just have to use the slowes wire speed and fight off carpul tunnel to get good penetration.



Most of the jeep is painted now









I had to clean up after this mess





Old brackets and what-nots ground off axles

















Welded the tubes to the housing on the D44 (please forgive my welds, its been awhile and i've never mig welded w/o gas before)

[DutchVDub]

Added a new hose onto the breather tube fro the D44





Where is the breather tube supposed to go?





Maybe here?





Yeah, that looks right.





I'm going to weld on the rear spring plates and weld the tubes into the housing on the 8.8 next, just waiting on the wifey.